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The elder to the beloved Ga'ius, whom I love in the truth.
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Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in health; I know that it is well with your soul.
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For I greatly rejoiced when some of the brethren arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do follow the truth.
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No greater joy can I have than this, to hear that my children follow the truth.
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Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers,
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who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God's service.
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For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen.
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So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.
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I have written something to the church; but Diot'rephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.